SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Corporate Welfare, Naimans, Feudalism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Rebecca Lock

Document Summary

The state & its role in class / capitalist relations. Financialization their population and geographic size increase, as warfare and trade expand, and as social inequalities become more extreme (naiman, 202, p. 165) An organized political structure that carries out tasks required by more complex societies as. Form a critical marxist perspective: not just organization, also social control. Some of social control is carried out by laws, structures, economic elements, propaganda etc . Feudalism: ruling class controlled economic activity as well as military / legal / admin etc. The economic class privately owns and (increasingly) controls economic activity. The state is collectively the government, military, police, and judiciary . And the state is responsible for the repercussions of private economic activity. Acts for the good of all / majority. Favour the economic class (accumulation function, corporate wealthfare ) Decisions are guided by the economic class. The state represses / subordinates for the economic class.